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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · 5d

John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · 12d

@clisare.com ah Jaysus it’s herself! Fair play to ya :D

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 18

Guys, we’ve past the “First, they came for…”.
We’re now on “THEN, they came for…”
The water’s a lot deeper than what you seem to think.

John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 18

Facts don’t care about your feelings?
FASCISTS DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR FACTS!

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 13

That beach scene still haunts me

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yup! We can get all four seasons in one day here!
If yous are coming in the Derry direction send me a DM. I do walking history and Derry Girls tours. I’d love to show you around!
Enjoy yourselves!!

John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 11

I hate how the nature of social media demands everyone’s instant reaction to big news, huge events demanding our hot take, our opinion, our response to what has just happened. Be it humour, solemnity, pointing out hypocrisy etc
We divide ourselves on opinion, squabble, react, and round&round we go!

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I feel like we’re going to be seeing some seriously passive reporting soon along the lines of “entire freedom flotilla drowned in freak simultaneous multi-drone incident” #freedomflotilla #freepalestine #palestine #israel

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Jun 9

I live in the Los Angeles area right now, and yeah—things feel scary. But let me be clear about something: LA isn’t rioting. We’re showing up for each other. We’re protecting our neighbors from being torn out of their homes by ICE, from being dehumanized and erased by a government trying to pretend some of us don’t belong. This city, as much of this country, is full of people who’ve been made to feel like they don’t count—and we’re standing up to say that we do.

Trump wants to paint LA as full of looters and criminals because facing the truth would mean admitting he’s the one fueling violence. That what’s happening here isn’t chaos—it’s community. It’s a city refusing to be broken, screaming we take care of each other.

So of course he calls us insurrectionists - despite himself having literally staged an attempted insurrection a few years ago. Because if he admitted what we really are—furious and united—he’d have to admit how hollow his power and message actually is and how not only are our actions a threat to him but why we fight.

We see through him. As a trans person, I know what it means to say we’re not what he, or anyone else says, we are. I’ve been living my whole life having people trying to tell me that.

We are so much more. We are one another’s shelter. And we’re not going anywhere.

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Jun 8

Christ! Are you out protesting? :o

John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · May 18

All set up for History & Chill in the Wee Hall in Culdaff this evening! Kicking off at 7.30pm! Land in! Gonna be fun!!! All the ups and downs of Irish history with a Donegal YouTuber! #culdaff #liveshow #liveevent #donegal #history #irishhistory

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Apr 25

@hbomberguy.bsky.social didn’t know you worked on The Abyss :P

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Apr 3

02 Apr 1917 - Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to join WW1
April 2nd 1917 - American entry into World War
I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
#mannymandoeshistory #onthisday #history #usa #ww1 #potus

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Apr 1

01 Apr 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the
"Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtyolJszls
#onthisday #history #ww2 #fascists #riot #unitetheright #germany #donttrustfascists

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Mar 13

@adamconover.net you said in Factually you werent as familiar with somw of the politics of the Guilded Age; here it is in cartoon form :D youtu.be/LyplN4hZHsU?...

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Map No Vacuum @atlasnovack.bsky.social · Feb 26

Freeze frame from @johndruddy.bsky.social's vid on US presidents 1916-56.

Seems like we should get those numbers up. Federal jobs guarantee. Universal basic income. 8-hour work day... from home. 3-day weekend.

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Feb 24

February 17th 1801 – An electoral tie between Jefferson and Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the USA and Burr, Vice President by the US House of Representatives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7O... #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #usa #potus #presidents #jefferson

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John D Ruddy @johndruddy.bsky.social · Feb 24

February 16th 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. FULL VIDEO ON CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDA... #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #cuba #coldwar #cubanmissilecrisis #dictator #revolution